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IPATENTED APR. 28, 1908.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

KITTEL O. RUE, OF WOLF-BUTTE, NORTH DAKOTA.

HAME

Application filed January 9, 1907, Serial No. 351,492. Renewed November19, 1907.

T all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, KITTEL 0. Run, a citizen of the United States,residing at Wolf-Butte, in the county of Adams and State of NorthDakota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hames; andI do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention has relation to hames, in which the means for connectingthe tug or trace therewith is adjustable up and down, as is also theconnection between the upper portions of the hames, so as to adjust theharness up or down on the horse without unharnessing the animal.

To the foregoing ends the nature of the invention of the improvements isshown in the annexed drawing, forming a part of this specification, andin view of which drawings the invention will be first described indetail as to its construction and mode of operation, and then be pointedout in the subjoined claims.

Of the said drawings, Figure 1 is a sectional view of a hame providedwith my improvements. Fig. 2 is a face view of a part of the means foradjusting the tug-attaching means. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of thetug-attaching means detached. Fig. 4 is a face view of the means foradjusting the hames connecting .means so as to make them high or low.Fig. 5 is a front view of a pair of hames. V

Similar figures of reference designate similar parts or features, as thecase may be, wherever they occur.

In the drawings, designates a hame that may be composed of steel orother suitable material made to fit upon a horse collar and having alateral flange 11 on its rear edge. 12- designates a base plate securedby means of screws 13, or by other suitable means, at a proper point tothe outside or rear side of the flange 11. The plate 12 is provided withperforated ears 14 that extend rearwardly from the face of the saidplate near the ends thereof, and through the perforations in said earsthere extends a pintle or bolt 15 keyed in place so that it cannot beaccidentally dislodged. Extending from the top of each ear at itsSpecification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 28, 1908.

Serial No. 402,912.

inner edge in an inclined direction down to the end of the plate 12 areflanges 16 that serve as guards to the ends of the pintle 15.

17 designates the tug or trace that is connected with a bolt 18 passedthrough the ears 19 on the ends of a yoke 20 that has plates or flanges21 compounded With it, the forward ends of which flanges 21 extendforward between teeth 22 projecting from the plate 12. The said flanges21, forward of the yoke 20, are made round and extend between the teeth22 that, as stated, project rearwardly from the plate 12 between itsflanges 14. There is a rounded connection or barrel between the flanges21, which barrel has an opening 241 through it and its flanges, throughwhich opening the bolt or pintle 15 extends so as to give the yoke 20the character of a leaf or member of a hinge of which the bolt 15 is thepivot or pintle. The flanges 21, as well as the connection between themis slotted, as at 23, the said slot being wide and deep enough to havethe outer ends of the teeth 22 pass therethrough when the yoke is foldedforward over the teeth, in which case the yoke may be adjusted up ordown on the pintle 15 and thus bring the draft of the tug 17 on theproper line on the hames in accordance with the size to which the latterhas been adjusted. When the yoke is folded back to normal position, theteeth on the plate 12 will keep it in place.

The plate 12 may have a connecting part 12 that extends through theflange 11 of the hame to its forward side, where it is fastened in anysuitable way to hold the said plate securely on the hame.

In order to adjust the hames to suit the size of the collar and so makethem high top or low top, the connecting straps or means 25 that isconnected with a band, forming a part of it, which band encircles thehames, is adjusted up or down thereon, as the case may be. In order tohold the loop or band 25, which may be of metal, in adjusted position onthe hame, a clasping plate 26 is hinged or pivoted at its lower end onthe base 27 to which the ring 28 through which the lines pass ispivoted. The said pivoted keeper plate 26 has in effect outward bentloops 28 formed in it within which the band may be engaged. Under thisconstruction the band 26 may be adjusted up or down on to the size of colar.

the hame so as to come within any ofthe loops 28 and so regulate thehames to suit the size of the collar on the horse.

WVhen the loop or band is to be adjusted,

the upper end of the plate 26 will be moved .upward to disengage theupper end of the keeper plate. A pm 31 connected with the upper end ofthe pivoted bar 29 extends outward or forward therefrom so that when itis desired torelease the keeper plate to adjust the band by pressing onthe outer end of said pin 31, the locking bar 29 will be pressed inwardagainst the stress of the spring 30 releasing the slide 32 and allowingthe upper end of the keeper plate to be moved outward as stated.

WVhen the size of the collar is changed to suit a horse of diiferentsize from that formerly used, or when, for other reasons, the size ofthe collar is changed from that on which the hames were formerly used,it becomes necessary to adjust the line of draft of the tug straps ortraces to suitable points, as also to vary the connections between thehames at the to so that they will be suited By my improvements, whichare at once simple in construction, entirely efficient and convenient ofmanipulation, the changes mentioned can be accomplished without takingthe harness off the horse.

It is to be noted that various changes may be made in the form andarrangements of parts and features of the device in which the inventionis shown to be embodied, without departing from the general nature orspirit thereof.

What is claimed as the invention, is:

1. The combination with the hame, of a toothed plate secured thereonhaving'flanges on its end ortions and a pintle bolt extended through t esaid flanges, a yoke having the tug attached thereto, said yoke beingprovided with means having flanges extending between the teeth of thesaid plate, and a slot formed in the said flanges and connecting means,whereby the yoke may be folded over on said plate with the teeth thereofextending into the said slot and said yoke be allowed to be adjusted onthe said plate, substantially as described.

2. The combination with the hames having a toothed and flanged plateconnected therewith, a pintle extended through the said flanges, a yokewith which the tug is connected having flanges extended between the saidteeth and hinged on said pintle, said flanges being slotted to permitthe teeth to pass therethrough when the yoke is folded over on the saidplate.

In testimony whereof, I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

KITTELLO. RUE.

Witnesses:

ANDRW. H. OLsoN, HELMns DAMMEN.

